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Webinar - 19th November, 2020

This webinar will highlight emerging innovative primary healthcare partnerships during and beyond COVID-19. The webinar will explore the role and contribution of non-state actors in primary healthcare partnerships in three country contexts in frontline surveillance and service delivery, advocacy and supply chains and addressing non-COVID related collateral healthcare. Panellists will discuss

New new/innovative models of care that have emerged during COVID and its heath system impact?

What has the response been? Is there evidence of impact?

What mechanisms have shown success in FCAS so far?

How has the implementation roll-out gone? Takeaways on what is needed to effectively launch a new partnership model?

What does the future look like? How will these models to sustain themselves in a post-COVID scenario?

Panellists include:

Dr Lew Yii Jen, Chief Executive Officer and Family Physician, National University Polyclinics, Singapore. Focus: Singapore's primary care model and the COVID 19 -Pandemic preparedness clinic partnerships

Mr. Dan Gwinnell, Project Director, Partners in Health – Focus: PIH's innovative partnership with the State of New Jersey in COVID 19 response, Newark, New Jersey, United States

Mr. Gustav Praekelt, Founder and Chairman of the Praekelt Group Praekelt.org –Focus: Suite of digital tools rolled out in partnership with Ministry of Health South Africa for primary health COVID response, South Africa

Discussant - Lim Yee Wei. Associate Professor, NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. Focus: Policy, practice and the role of leadership in fostering innovative health partnerships.

Conversation moderated by Ms. Elizabeth Ntonjira, Head of Global Corporate Communications, Amref Health Africa.